I LOVE hockey! And it's always been The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim/Anaheim Ducks for me!
I liked them since I was a kid (which is basically their whole existence) because they were always so scrappy, it always seemed like they had a few good players (Ruchin! Kariya before he turned traitor! And to complete that line of my youth, my favorite player ever, The Finnish Flash- TEEMU SELANNE!) and then a bunch of just never-say-die players just playing their hearts out, never quiting.
Just like my Mets never quit with Piazza and those great days, and my 49ers never quit with Steve Young or Jeff Garcia at the helm.
And when you are as sick as I was as a kid, Chron's Disease misdiagnosed as Colitis, long weeks in hospitals, a stroke that nearly killed me, seizures, blood transfusions... you tend to like the little guys who never quit.
:)
So they've stayed that way, my Ducks, always having scrappy young wingers (now it's Corey Perry and Ryan Getzlaf with Selanne) accompanied by hard-hitting defensemen (Scott Niedermeyer, Scott Wisniewski, and our great fighter George Parros) and a young, brick-wall goalie (used to be Guy Hebert back in the day; now it's Giggy, Jean-Sebastian Giguere, but he looks a bit tired, now splitting duty a lot with Jonas Hiller, a new young goalie.)
QUACK QUACK QUACK!
(And sorry, wydend- but obviously I HATE your Wings, have since that very first playoff series back in the '90s!)
:)